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Dying Young & Cardiovascular Diseases!

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  • Wandusim Ramseyer 10 years ago

    Good advice there, let avoid if possible eradicate illments such as these througth proper living habits ie more traditional foods, proper exercising etc.God bless our home land Ghana.

  • safohen 10 years ago

    MOST PEOPLE IN GHANA DONT EAT FAST FOODS.SO IT IS WRONG TO ATTRIBUTE THE HIGH RATE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AMONG CITY DWELLERS TO FAST FOOD CONSUMPTION.OUR LOCAL DIETS ARE AMONG OTHER THINGS UNBALANCED.WE TEND TO APPRECIATE ...
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  • awonaniba 10 years ago

    Obi anku wo a, waa wo b3 wu

  • Adwoa 10 years ago

    Great article.bwe are all guilty. That being said can you doctors have the patience to properly diagnose us and put us on the right medication.

  • Dorkita Exercise. 10 years ago

    And you will not get heart attack no matter what food you eat so long as you can exercise a minimum of 350 cal a day and drink about 2 lit of water during this exercise you are rest assured.
    Again the first thing is exercise ...
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  • Tekonline . org 10 years ago

    Certainly exercise is essential for good cardiovascular health. Exercise stimulates the growth of new blood vessels in the heart musculature, among other benefits.

    However, the human body is largely a CHEMICAL organ and fo ...
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  • Dorkita Exercise. 10 years ago

    What kind of diet you are talking about? All that I am saying is eat normal but do regular exercise. A normal life style with regular exercise is the secret of good health!

  • Tekonline . org 10 years ago

    .... this is no laughing matter!

  • James 10 years ago

    Thanks for the nice article. As our life expectancy increases we expect to have increasing cases of cardiovascular diseases. In addition to the factors you enumerated I would add lack of adequate rest. We have to wake up very ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    "Decades ago such ailments were unheard of in our part of the world let alone be seen in young people in the productive age group like we are seeing now."

    "Unheard of" doesn't mean they didn't exist. They DID exist, in fac ...
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  • F. DONTOH 10 years ago

    I am not an MD but to the best of my knowledge, low-dose Aspirin (also referred to as Children's Aspirin) is meant to be taken on a daily basis not to prevent heart attacks but rather stroke. The aspirin's effect is to thin t ...
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  • Manu 10 years ago

    The Doctor wasn't recommending taking high dose of aspirin daily. He took the dose he took because he knew he was going through a heart attact, and to him taking the dose he took would mitigate the progress of the attack to a ...
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  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    Aspirin prevents the platelets from promoting the formation of blood clots.
    When a clot forms in or reaches the brain vessels, that leads to Stroke. When a clot develops in the heart vessels, that precipitates Heart Attacks.

  • Mark (UK) 10 years ago

    Dontoh you are wrong there regarding the use of Aspirin as one of the first courses of action in MIs (myocardial infarctions). What the doctor said was right. As one who has worked in Emergency Room before, that is the first ...
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  • CROOKS AND LIARS 10 years ago

    Reduce the excessive salt and fat to be found in traditional foods such as palm-nut/ground-nut/pepper soup!

  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    Groundnut soup is okay.

  • Dorkita Exercise. 10 years ago

    eXERCISE and you will not get heart attack no matter what food you eat so long as you can exercise a minimum of 350 cal a day and drink about 2 lit of water during this exercise you are rest assured.
    Again the first thing is ...
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  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    There is no doubt that exercise is essential for good cardiovascular health. Exercise stimulates the growth of new blood vessels in the heart musculature, among other benefits.

    However, the human body is largely a CHEMICAL ...
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  • Dorkita Exercise. 10 years ago

    Your chemical nomenclatures is not what I am talking about. They are not going to stop eating what they really like and my advise is, so long as they do regular exercise everyday and burn a minimum of 350 cal they are better ...
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  • Tekonline . org 10 years ago

    No amount of exercise can offset the damage and risk to the body by eating high sodium, low potassium, high saturated fats, low monounsaturated, excessive transfats, low fiber, and predominant starchy diet.

    We MUST promote ...
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  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    Quite a timely article, Sodzi. Let's hope there would also be a series in the mass media, educating the general public on such medical matters. A well-informed populace makes healthcare delivery more effective.

    I'm a bit c ...
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  • Dorkita Exercise. 10 years ago

    The sugar level, cholesterol level, your weight are what really matters in the test. So the blood test can predict the 10% chance of living the next 10 years.

  • Tekonline . org 10 years ago

    Electrolyte levels (sodium, potassium, calcium, chloride) control the vital organs.
    Vitamins, essential fats, essential amino acids, ....do I really need to go on?

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A man suffered a serious heart attack and consequently had a quadruple heart bypass surgery. He woke up to find that he was in the care of nuns at a catholic hospital. When he had recovered sufficiently a nun began to ask him ...
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  • dennis awah 10 years ago

    Sodzi, I feel your emotions have clouded your judgment and thus you make the cardinal mistake of perpetrating a lie, the lie being the statement in your article - "The epidemic proportions of cardiovascular diseases we are se ...
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  • ADONGO 10 years ago

    Well written ,Yaw